It's funny how when we finish school we seem to stop celebrating our achievements.
Some daycare centres have a little graduation before the children move into kindergarten. Then you have elementary school, junior high, high school, college and university.
That's quite a few graduations ... Views: 1830
Feeling Stuck? 7 Steps Worth Pursuing
By Kimberley Cohen
There are times in our personal and/or professional life where we feel stuck and we don't know which way to turn, or what to do next, or we become fearful of what the outcomes will be.
It's as if our hopes and dreams have been ... Views: 1214
Adding "ah" moments to your day is like sipping on a cool glass of lemonade on a hot summer day, or drinking a cup of warm cocoa or tea on a cool winter’s eve, or gazing at the stars in the midnight sky, or paddling a kayak or canoe on the still morning or evening waters.
These surreal times ... Views: 1508
With all the troubled times in the world and in our personal and professional lives, it can be difficult to find the joy, let alone laughter.
The definition of laugher is: to feel joyousness, merriment, glee and the resulting sound as to laugh.
There is nothing more beautiful than ... Views: 1374
What makes your life fit like a fine pair of shoes?
What makes it comfortable, appealing, affordable, sexy, and perhaps even dazzling?
When you buy a pair of shoes you generally purchase ones that feel good, fit right, and appeal to you.
You know what you don’t like or what doesn’t ... Views: 5285
Labyrinths have become part of spiritual practices for many people and cultures.
Labyrinths are like mazes and are built in different designs and various ways. When walking through them they can represent your journey and ways to learn more about yourself, your life, and your relationships ... Views: 1813
Every person is for your growth, learning, and expansion. This can be hard to believe especially from a person who pushes your buttons and you feel like pulling your hair out.
It’s much easier to acknowledge the great and awesome qualities that our friends bring for us and reflect in us. ... Views: 10308
We are always evolving, growing and expanding in our personal, professional and spiritual lives. Everything occurring is for this very reason.
The question to ask is, "What stage of transformation am I in?"
Think of it like a butterfly’s metamorphous; there’s the egg, the larva, the ... Views: 2780
The dawn of each day holds the promise for possibilities.
It’s hard to believe that’s true when world seems to be filled with despair, war, recession, The Swine Flu, Listeria, company closures, layoffs, gas and oil price increases, fluctuations in stock markets, earthquakes, tornadoes, ... Views: 1664
Everything occurring in your life is precisely the right timing for your optimal growth.
When things are running smoothly in your relationships, your career, your finances, your health, and your personal enjoyment time, it's quite easy to feel that you're in the right place at the right ... Views: 1066
For some, having a direction is the easy part, but getting there can be the challenge. For others, not having a direction, or believing it’s possible, can be steering them off course.
Whether you have a route mapped out of where you are going and what you want, or you don’t, becoming a ... Views: 1282
We have all experienced troubled times in our lives, as if there was a black cloud hovering over our days.
Each day you get up thinking, "Perhaps today will be better"
The only real way it will be different is by shifting the mind-sets around the challenging times.
If all you choose to ... Views: 4241
It’s important to make time for joy, because you are JOY! When you do things that express who you truly are, it reflects in everything you do.
When it’s all work and no play, there doesn’t seem to be much time for fun, laughter, friends, family, but mostly, you! Even if you’re passionate ... Views: 1134
Just about anything can create a feeling of disappointment if you allow it too.
It could be something as simple as the weather putting a damper on events or vacations, or perhaps something more serious as in job layoffs and cut backs, or not receiving the job applied for, or a relationship ... Views: 1165
How do we spring from problems to possibilities?
We do so by recognizing there is a source that’s available to expand our possibilities.
One of the definitions of the word spring is, "to originate as from a source or cause."
Think of your problems like a spring flower. They lie ... Views: 1276
How do we stay open to life’s budding opportunities and beauty when we are experiencing economic and personal crisis?
By changing our beliefs towards the experiences we are encountering.
It can be difficult to bloom in our personal and professional lives when we are surrounded by doom ... Views: 1303
What to do when life throws you a curve ball:
Keep batting and don't give up. Learn to hit them right out into the stands and run all the bases for a home run. Hear the crowd go wild. Feel the glory inside that you didn't throw down your bat in defeat.
We are all pitched a few curve balls ... Views: 13826
Where does all the unwanted baggage come from?
It accumulates from old mindsets and beliefs towards experiences in life. If not dealt with, they can turn into resentment, hurt, non-forgiveness, bitterness, disappointment and anger etc. This way of thinking can create patterns and blocks that ... Views: 1793
The majority of people see things either black or white. They find it difficult to see the grey, let alone live it.
Grey is the synergy, the melding of one and the other, rather than one vs. the other.
Look at the wars of the past and the present. Due to black vs. white, both in colour ... Views: 1979
We spend more time and money doggy paddling through life than actually learning how to swim different strokes that take us from where we are to where we want to be.
There is the butterfly stroke (the most challenging), the breast stroke, the side stroke, the back stroke, the front crawl and ... Views: 1421
Do you feel purpose and passion in all areas of your life?
* Your spiritual life?
* Your financial and job/career?
* Your relationships?
* Your personal time and growth?
* Your health and well being?
* Your legacy/contribution (people, community, world)?
In ... Views: 1058
The definition of worry is to torment oneself with disturbing thoughts, to bite or snap repeatedly at something.
Worrying about something is a waste of time and energy; so why do we torment ourselves with such thoughts?
The reason is we don’t trust that everything will be as it needs to ... Views: 1335
So how does one put the wind back in their sail?
It's simple really, and here's the great news. You are the sail and the wind behind it. Yes, you.
Most people set off on their course in life with their sail boat chartered for great destinations. Somewhere along the way the wind seems to ... Views: 3700